Playdoh fun

It's been awhile sicne I've made something fun for the kids. I recently stumbled across a gingerbread playdoh recipe. It looked like such an awesome, fun idea I had to try it out!

The finished product smelled amazing, but was a little dry and left a slightly salty residue. This is an ongoing problem I have when trying to make playdoh. I was quite bummed out because I really wanted to make single portions of gingerbread playdoh for Jake to give out at his school christmas party.

I set off to find a great playdoh recipe. One I could add the gingerbread spices too. I am very happy to report that I finally found it!!! I made soft, pliable, shiny playdoh. The recipe I found makes quite a large patch. I split it up and made three different colors (red, green and white for Christmas) and scented it with peppermint oil. I'm going to make gingerbread next! The recipe is as follows:

Best playdoh recipe

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tbsp cream of tartar
4 tbsp baby oil
2 cups of water

Whisk together dry ingredients in a medium size sauce pan. Mix together water and baby oil then add to dry ingredients. Cook on medium high until mixture is thick then remove from heat. When playdoh is just cool enough to kneed, remove from sauce pan and kneed on wax paper. This last step is important because it adds shine and a good barrier because the wax from the paper melts into the playdoh.

The kids have spent the last few days enjoy hours of endless fun. The best part? Many of those hours have been spent playing TOGETHER with the playdoh. Even better, playing together quietly, without fighting! They have been making "cookies" with christmas cookie cutters, pizzas, animals, ect.

As you can see they are having a fantastic time :) as a mom it always makes me very happy to see my children enjoying simple, inexpensive things. So often children today feel they need a fancy, expensive toy to have fun. Or some electronic device or game to entertain them. Yes, my children ate guilty of this too!

Jake just happens to be my bigger offender. I am very pleasantly Surprised that he is entertaining himself with playdoh for such long periods of time.

Proof they CAN play together for long periods of time without arguing! Even Avary got in on it, of course she would have preferred to eat it, I'm sure.

To make playdoh gingerbread scented add:

4 tbsp ground ginger
4 tsp ground cloves
2 tbsp ground cinnamon
4 tsp ground nutmeg
1-2 tsp orange extract (optional)

Hope you all have some fun!